On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> wrote: > I have a process that I see in ps, but cannot kill. > This is happening on a host running Lenny in a small LAN. > > I run this to get a display of processes: > gq:/var/lib/mlocate# ps -Af | less > --------------- > > In this list I find this line: > root 9398 1 1 04:59 ? 00:03:11 /usr/bin/updatedb.mlocate > PID PPID > > I issue the following command: > gq:/db2/chkpnt# kill -9 9398 > -------------- > > I re-run ps as above. The process is still there! What can I do, short of > rebooting? >
Take a look at the output of 'ps 9398', and look at the STAT column. If it's 'D', then Google for uninterruptible sleep. I'm afraid I don't have anything specific to mlocate to point you to. Nye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org